Arthur Conan Doyle

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #violin #music

I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#writing #literature-quotes

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture! ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#fight #furniture #humor #violence #humor

It is a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a brain must have something in it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#intelligence #intelligence

If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #the-sign-of-four #imagination

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#any #combinations #daring #effects #effort

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#divorce #evidence #infidelity #marriage #pencils

I love and am loved by a better man than he. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#love

‎A change of work is the best rest. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#work-is-worship #change

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#writing-from-the-heart #writing-life #life